Perforation of the colon due to endometriosis

Goodman P, P Goodman, B Raval, Raval B, G Zimmerman, Zimmerman G
Gastrointestinal radiology · 1990 · doi:10.1007/BF01888816 · PMID:2210212
case-report OA: closed public-domain-us
Full text JSON View on PubMed View at publisher
⚙ AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-13 ⓘ

This case report describes a rare instance of sigmoid colon perforation caused by endometriosis, a condition that typically spares the intestinal mucosa.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

⚙ AI-generated deep summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-13 · read from full text ⓘ

The paper presents a single patient case of sigmoid colon perforation attributed to endometriosis, noting that although endometriosis commonly involves the bowel serosa and intramural layers, the intestinal mucosa is typically intact and bowel perforation is rare. Using a radiologic case report format, it describes the event and emphasizes that, to the authors’ knowledge, this was the first such case reported in the radiologic literature. A key limitation is that the evidence is limited to one case, without broader series or comparative analysis. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it reports a rare radiologic case of colon (sigmoid) perforation due to endometriosis.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

Endometriosis is a common disease which affects the bowel in 12 to 35% of cases. Despite extensive serosal and intramural involvement, the intestinal mucosa usually remains intact and bowel perforation rarely occurs. We describe a patient with perforation of the sigmoid colon due to endometriosis. To our knowledge, this is the first such case to be reported in the radiologic literature.
Full text 1,840 characters · extracted from oa-doi-fallback · 2 sections · click to expand

Abstract

Endometriosis is a common disease which affects the bowel in 12 to 35% of cases. Despite extensive serosal and intramural involvement, the intestinal mucosa usually remains intact and bowel perforation rarely occurs. We describe a patient with perforation of the sigmoid colon due to endometriosis. To our knowledge, this is the first such case to be reported in the radiologic literature. Similar content being viewed by others

References

Gordon RL, Evers K, Kressel HY, Laufer I, Herlinger H, Thompson JJ: Double-contrast enema in pelvic endometriosis.AJR 138:549–552, 1982 Croom RD III, Donovan ML, Schwesinger WH: Intestinal endometriosis.Am J Surg 148:660–667, 1984 Samper ER, Slagle GW, Hand AM: Colonic endometriosis: Its clinical spectrum.South Med J 77:912–914, 1984 Fagan CJ: Endometriosis: Clinical and roentgenographic manifestations.Radiol Clin North Am 12:109–125, 1974 Aronchick CA, Brooks FP, Dyson WL, Baron R, Thompson JJ: Ileocecal endometriosis presenting with abdominal pain and gastrointestinal bleeding.Dig Dis Sci 28:566–572, 1983 Floberg J, Backdahl M, Silfersward C, Thomassen PA: Postpartum perforation of the colon due to endometriosis.Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 63:183–184, 1984 Ledley GS, Shenk IM, Heit HA: Sigmoid colon perforation due to endometriosis not associated with pregnancy.Am J Gastroenterol 83:1424–1426, 1988 Fishman EK, Scatarige JC, Saksouk FA, Rosenshein NB, Siegelman SS: Computed tomography of endometriosis.J Comput Assist Tomogr 7:257–264, 1983 Author information Authors and Affiliations Rights and permissions About this article Cite this article Goodman, P., Raval, B. & Zimmerman, G. Perforation of the colon due to endometriosis. Gastrointest Radiol 15, 346–348 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01888816 Received: Accepted: Issue date: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01888816

Text is read by the "Ask this paper" AI Q&A widget below. Extraction quality varies by source — PMC NXML preserves structure cleanly, OA-HTML may include some navigation residue, and OA-PDF can have broken hyphenation. The publisher copy (via DOI) is the canonical version.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

⚙ Ask this paper AI returns verbatim quotes from the full text · source: oa-doi-fallback ⓘ

Answers must be backed by verbatim quotes from this paper's full text. Hallucinated quotes are dropped automatically; if no verbatim passage answers the question, we say so. How this works

Condition tags

endometriosis

MeSH descriptors

Endometriosis Intestinal Perforation Sigmoid Neoplasms Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Humans Intestinal Perforation Intestinal Perforation Middle Aged Sigmoid Diseases Sigmoid Diseases Sigmoid Diseases Sigmoid Neoplasms Sigmoid Neoplasms Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Citation neighborhood (no data yet)

We don't have any in-corpus citations linked to this paper yet. The paper's references may be in our DB but unresolved to ``paper_id`` (resolution happens at ingest when the cited DOI matches a row we already have). Run the cross-source citation reconcile pass to retry.

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-07-12T06:14:43.533933+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:12:15.619952+00:00
unpaywall
last seen: 2026-07-12T06:46:07.823367+00:00
License: public-domain-us · commercial use OK · attribution required
Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine